Cops search for clues in slaying

Eric Andreasen, who is accused of stabbing a tourist to death in the parking lot of an Oceanside shopping center, exclaimed that “God had ordered him” to do it, according to search warrant documents.

Police raided the Oceanside home where Andreasen lived with his mother and her husband shortly after he was arrested in connection with the slaying of Katherine Parker, 54, of Lincoln, a city northeast of Sacramento.

Court documents say a witness heard Andreasen make the statement when he “stabbed or completed stabbing” Parker. Police used the witness account and the fact that Andreasen had a “lengthy history of psychiatric issues” to ask a judge for permission to seize medications and religious materials.

Authorities seized a 7-inch knife, a computer from Andreasen's bedroom, three of his notebooks, two sketches of unclothed women, prison documents and prescription bottles including an empty container of aripiprazole tablets. Aripiprazole is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions.

Andreasen, 37, was arrested April 3 in the parking lot of the El Camino North Shopping Center on Vista Way. He has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Witnesses told police Andreasen stabbed Parker, who had just left a Hallmark store in the shopping center, about 10 times. Police said they don't know why Andreasen attacked Parker, but robbery apparently wasn't the motive.

According to the documents, a witness told police Andreasen threw a knife after the stabbing and was seen lying on the ground with his hands behind his back before he was arrested.